Buffy ,'Same Time, Same Place'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Stick with the book, megan, because you next get the thrill of Laura's first train ride and then the fun of meeting Lena.
And watching them build the railway!
Sometime in high school, I remember reading a poem about an Arab girl named Leila. (At least, I think that's what her name was.) Something about her sitting in a garden, maybe? It was by a well-known poet, and I think from sometime around 1920 or so. Anyone know what poem I'm talking about? Google is giving me no help.
And watching them build the railway!
Don't forget the scariness when the railroad workers decide that they want their pay earlier than contracted and try using mob force to get Pa to fork over the money, which Ma has hidden in the flour barrel.
Hil, is it this? [link]
No, that's not it. Thanks, though. I think the poet was British, but maybe American.
Hmm. I just read Three Men In A Boat...and I must say, it's....incredibly random? i should've thought to bring "To Say Nothing of the Dog" (Connie Willis) and see if having read the former now informs the latter at all, but I guess that'll have to wait (I'm on a trip). I can certainly see the similarities, but must ask--is it just my edition, or is it random, or what on earth does the ghost stories at the end have to do with the rest of the book?? Good grief, man!
So bizarre.
I just finished Superpowers, and I think it broke me a little. Man.
Really good stuff. Of the reviews I've read, I'm surprised that none of them mention how, just like in comics, some of the action that I consider important actually took place "between the panels." Nicely done.
And I'd say that the book stopped being about superheroes (if it ever really *was*) about halfway through.
One of the only things I didn't like -- and this is really no fault of the book -- was that knowing that the timeline of the book encompasses 9/11 gave me this inexorable sense of dread. Because I knew (and surely this is no spoiler; we *know* the author, and he wouldn't pull such a hackneyed trick) that nothing corny like the superheroes *stopping* the terrorist attacks would happen. And that meant that the alternative was big pain coming right at them.
And that meant that the alternative was big pain coming right at them.
::nodnodnod::
And at us, oh ye gods.
And that meant that the alternative was big pain coming right at them.
::nodnodnod::
And, see, in the run up to Nightwing #93 (was it 93?), when I could see all the pain gathered ready to whammy Dick, and I knew there was no other way it could have gone down, it still didn't give me the *dread* it did with Superpowers. Which is a credit, I think, to Knut. Because I don't worry about Dick Grayson, but I do worry about the All-Stars.
Because I knew (and surely this is no spoiler; we *know* the author, and he wouldn't pull such a hackneyed trick) that nothing corny like the superheroes *stopping* the terrorist attacks would happen.
Right there with you, Tep. I just read the bit where Marcus speaks to the audience and says "You know the timeline, you know what's coming." And I applaud Knut for doing that, but there is dread.
Sort of like in The Poisonwood Bible where you know one of the girls is going to die. Except there you spend your reading time rooting for it to be a particular one (if you are me).